Should I use money-off vouchers that aren't mine?

ajr77

I tried this at Tesco when such a voucher had been left. It did not work.

dan2097

It's obviously not stealing, but it is fraud (against the supermarket). I think it's analogous to a non-student using someone else's student card to obtain a student discount.

Fitzmichael

How can it be stealing? Who from? People often don't bother with these vouchers. Even if it was left by accident, the 'owner' has no means of recovering it. I don't know what stores' motive is in giving these vouchers, but they are obviously intended to get you to spend more, which you will be doing - unless it's linked to a loyalty card.
You could hardly find someone with a stricter sense of what constitutes 'stealing' than me, brought up 70 years ago in a strongly religious family - the religion has long gone but the morality not.

geordie_joe

Fitzmichael wrote: »

How can it be stealing?

Because you are depriving the rightful owner of it.

Fitzmichael wrote: »

Who from?

The rightful owner.

Fitzmichael wrote: »

People often don't bother with these vouchers.

That is not proof the owner of this particular voucher doesn't bother. It may have been that there was a delay in it being printed and they went away thinking they weren't going to get a voucher.

Fitzmichael wrote: »

Even if it was left by accident, the 'owner' has no means of recovering it.

Of course they have, they could just go to the cs desk and ask if anyone has handed it in.

Anyway, the law doesn't say the owner has to have a means of recovering it, it says the finder has to take reasonable steps to return it. Handing it in at the cs desk is a reasonable step.

Fitzmichael wrote: »

I don't know what stores' motive is in giving these vouchers, but they are obviously intended to get you to spend more, which you will be doing - unless it's linked to a loyalty card.

The stores motives for giving vouchers don't matter, but I bet there is something in the T&Cs about them only to be used by the intended recipient.

Fitzmichael wrote: »

You could hardly find someone with a stricter sense of what constitutes 'stealing' than me,

I bet I could.

Fitzmichael wrote: »

brought up 70 years ago in a strongly religious family - the religion has long gone but the morality not.

Are you sure?

geordie_joe

dan2097 wrote: »

It's obviously not stealing, but it is fraud (against the supermarket).

Actually, it would be fraud if you took it and used it, but stealing if you took it and didn't use it.

tronator

geordie_joe wrote: »

Because you are depriving the rightful owner of it.



The rightful owner.



That is not proof the owner of this particular voucher doesn't bother. It may have been that there was a delay in it being printed and they went away thinking they weren't going to get a voucher.



Of course they have, they could just go to the cs desk and ask if anyone has handed it in.

Anyway, the law doesn't say the owner has to have a means of recovering it, it says the finder has to take reasonable steps to return it. Handing it in at the cs desk is a reasonable step.




The stores motives for giving vouchers don't matter, but I bet there is something in the T&Cs about them only to be used by the intended recipient.



I bet I could.



Are you sure?

Are you sam's boyfriend